Departmental Websites of Central Government Ministries of India

a webometric study

Abstract

To measure the visibility, performance, and link quality of departmental websites under central government ministries of India, the study looked at the websites of India's ministries' departments. The required data have been collected by applying web-based survey and observation methods. Different webometric tools and approaches have then been used to analyse and tabulate the collected data. The current study has examined the domain structure, number of webpages, and link pages of the existing departmental websites under different ministries of India. It has further calculated the simple web impact factor (WIF), the self-link WIF, and the external link WIF and ranked the websites based on the score of different WIFs. A link network diagram is also prepared which shows the links among the selected central government departmental websites. The study reveals that 89.47% of websites use gov.in extension and only 10.53% of websites carry nic.in domain extension. The website of Department of Food & Public Distribution (DoFPD) got the highest position with 196 link pages, only one web page and 196 Simple WIF. This study will assist in making guidelines for website development and be helpful to further research in the field ofwebometric evaluation.